Bah, String handling in python is a complete mess. In any case, we dropped support for 2 so we can remove the u prefixes. It seems that the Unicode syntax in python 3 was dropped in python 3.0 and reintroduced on 3.3. We were all using 3.5 to test. To get you going again quickly, You can either revert the commit that made python 3 the default and use python 2, or open the python files runtests.py testlib.py and testutil.py and do a global search and replace for u' and drop the u. I will fix it properly later tonight. On Thu, 1 Dec 2016, 15:27 Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs, < ghc-devs@haskell.org> wrote:

Yikes. I can’t run the testsuite on Linux (debian ? I think…). See below.

I installed python3 by saying

apt-get install python3

And indeed

python3 --version

Python 3.2.3

This is bad. Can anyone help?

Simon

PYTHON="python3" "python3" ../../driver/runtests.py -e ghc_compiler_always_flags="'-dcore-lint -dcmm-lint -no-user-package-db -rtsopts -fno-warn-missed-specialisations -fshow-warning-groups -dno-debug-output'" -e config.compiler_debugged=True -e ghc_with_native_codegen=1 -e config.have_vanilla=True -e config.have_dynamic=True -e config.have_profiling=False -e ghc_with_threaded_rts=1 -e ghc_with_dynamic_rts=1 -e config.have_interp=False -e config.unregisterised=False -e config.ghc_dynamic_by_default=False -e config.ghc_dynamic=False -e ghc_with_smp=1 -e ghc_with_llvm=0 -e windows=False -e darwin=False -e config.in_tree_compiler=True --threads=33 -e config.cleanup=True -e config.local=False --rootdir=. --configfile=../../config/ghc -e 'config.confdir="../../config"' -e 'config.platform="x86_64-unknown-linux"' -e 'config.os="linux"' -e 'config.arch="x86_64"' -e 'config.wordsize="64"' -e 'config.timeout=int() or config.timeout' -e 'config.exeext=""' -e 'config.top="/5playpen/simonpj/HEAD-4/testsuite"' --config 'compiler="/5playpen/simonpj/HEAD-4/inplace/test spaces/ghc-stage1"' --config 'ghc_pkg="/5playpen/simonpj/HEAD-4/inplace/test spaces/ghc-pkg"' --config 'haddock="/5playpen/simonpj/HEAD-4/inplace/test spaces/haddock"' --config 'hp2ps="/5playpen/simonpj/HEAD-4/inplace/test spaces/hp2ps"' --config 'hpc="/5playpen/simonpj/HEAD-4/inplace/test spaces/hpc"' --config 'gs="gs"' --config 'timeout_prog="../../timeout/install-inplace/bin/timeout"' -e "config.stage=1" --summary-file "../../../testsuite_summary_stage1.txt" --no-print-summary 1 \

\

\

\

\

\

-e config.speed="2" \

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "../../driver/runtests.py", line 210, in <module>

from testlib import *

File "/home/simonpj/code/HEAD-4/testsuite/driver/testlib.py", line 1286

f.write(u':set prog ' + name + u'\n')

^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs

Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs writes:

Yikes. I can’t run the testsuite on Linux (debian ? I think…). See below. I installed python3 by saying apt-get install python3 And indeed

python3 --version

Python 3.2.3

For the record I've opened #12909 to track this. There is a fix in D2778 which I'll merge shortly. Cheers, - Ben